Who is Sergey Sklokin? Meet the 12-year-old everyone’s talking about after one shocking chess game

A 12-year-old chess prodigy, Sergey Sklokin, stunned the chess world by defeating reigning world champion D. Gukesh at the ...
New Scientist

Chess can be made fairer by rearranging the pieces

Chess960 involves shuffling the pieces at the back of the board, and an analysis suggests doing so can increase the ...

Chess960's random setups still favor white, new study reveals

Chess is a relatively simple game to learn but a very difficult one to master. Because the starting positions of the pieces ...
The Guardian

Leonard Barden on chess

Norway’s world No 1 beat the world champion, Gukesh Dommaraju, 5.5-0.5, and also edged the world Nos 2 and 3, Hikaru Nakamura and Fabiano Caruana, both by 3.5-2.5 ...